Low Brow Lounge

Low Brow Lounge is a dive bar and restaurant in Portland, Oregon's Pearl District, in the United States.

Low Brow Lounge
The bar's front exterior in 2018
Restaurant information
Established1998 (1998)
Street address1036 NW Hoyt Street
CityPortland
StateOregon
Postal/ZIP Code97209
CountryUnited States
Coordinates45.5272°N 122.6819°W / 45.5272; -122.6819
Websitelowbrowlounge.com

Description

Portland Monthly has described Low Brow as the Pearl District's "diviest dive bar", serving the neighborhood's "working people" with "some of the greasiest food around".[1] Thrillist has said the establishment is "true to its name", with "no frills" and "just cold beer and solid bar snacks".[2]

History

The Low Brow Lounge was stablished in 1998,[3][4] and claims to be the first tater tot bar.[5] Minors can accompany guardians on the side of the restaurant without a bar, as of 2016.[6]

Reception
Mural on the building's exterior, 2020

In 2016, readers of Willamette Week placed Low Brow third in the "Best Dive Bar" category in the annual "Best of Portland Reader's Poll".[7] Readers named Low Brow runner-up in the same category in 2018.[8]

In her 2019 article "Where to Eat and Drink in Portland's Pearl District" for Eater Portland, Kara Stokes wrote, "The Low Brow Lounge is a dark cave of a space that feels both wholly out of place and desperately needed in the posh Pearl, the kind of place ideal to hunker down in while it's raining... It's a dive bar through and through, somewhere to go for stiff cheap drinks and a tinge of old Pearl nostalgia, if not necessarily a dining destination."[9] The website's Alex Frane and Alli Fodor included Low Brow Lounge in their guide to the city's "iconic" dive bars, writing, "A respite of low-brow dining in the otherwise bourgeoise Pearl District, the all-too-appropriately named Low Brow Lounge offers the cheapest drinks and most-fried food for blocks around. The multi-chambered diner and bar sports arcade games and quirky artwork, and each night sees regulars and service-workers coming in for an escape from the Pearl."[10]

In his 2019 overview of Portland's "most essential" dive bars, Thrillist's Pete Cottell wrote, "With cheap-ish craft beer, dark, winding hallways, and above-average bites that rarely break the $10 mark, Low Brow Lounge succeeds at being the only comfortable place for a vast swath of Portland to grab a drink or two when forces beyond their control require them to spend some time in the Pearl District."[11] He also included Low Brow in his 2019 list of the city's "best bars for single mingling".[12]

References
  1. "The Low Brow Lounge". Portland Monthly. Archived from the original on December 31, 2020. Retrieved December 16, 2020.
  2. "Low Brow Lounge". Thrillist. Archived from the original on December 31, 2020. Retrieved December 16, 2020.
  3. Horton, Jay (May 23, 2017). "Low Brow Lounge Outlived the Rise of the Pearl, and Now Feels Classic". Willamette Week. Archived from the original on December 31, 2020. Retrieved December 16, 2020.
  4. Butler, Grant (June 29, 2018). "Raise a glass to 30 great Portland bars that are still going strong". The Oregonian. Archived from the original on December 30, 2020. Retrieved December 16, 2020.
  5. Korfhage, Matthew (August 18, 2015). "Trolley Drunk". Willamette Week. Archived from the original on December 30, 2020. Retrieved December 16, 2020.
  6. Merck, Kat (January 5, 2016). "Portland Bars Where You Can Bring Kids". Willamette Week. Archived from the original on December 31, 2020. Retrieved December 16, 2020.
  7. "Best of Portland Reader's Poll 2016: The Complete List of Winners". Willamette Week. July 18, 2016. Archived from the original on January 6, 2019. Retrieved December 16, 2020.
  8. "Here are the Winners of the Best of Portland Readers' Poll 2018". Willamette Week. July 10, 2018. Archived from the original on January 6, 2019. Retrieved December 16, 2020.
  9. Stokes, Kara (September 9, 2019). "Where to Eat and Drink in Portland's Pearl District". Eater Portland. Archived from the original on December 31, 2020. Retrieved December 16, 2020.
  10. Frane, Alex; Fodor, Alli (October 24, 2019). "The Ultimate Guide to Portland's Iconic Dive Bars". Eater Portland. Vox Media. Archived from the original on December 31, 2020. Retrieved December 16, 2020.
  11. Cottell, Pete (September 20, 2019). "The Most Essential Dive Bars in Portland". Thrillist. Archived from the original on December 31, 2020. Retrieved December 16, 2019.
  12. Cottell, Pete (June 19, 2019). "The Best Bars for Single Mingling in Portland". Thrillist. Archived from the original on December 31, 2020. Retrieved December 16, 2020.
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